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The first domestic Chinese jet airliner had its first flight last Friday. A potentially serious new competitor is growing its capability in the most sophisticated and complex civilian manufacturing sector. More

To many current day Americans, John Locke is a character on a popular television series. To many Americans of an earlier day, John Locke was a critical ingredient in the Enlightenment laboratory beaker that produced the American Experiment. More

Peter Beinart, one of the smarter and saner liberals, tells those to his left not to worry about the recently appointed "hawks" in national security /foreign policy/defense roles. It's just cover... More

One score and seven days ago, give or take, our electorate brought forth on this continent, a new President. Since then, he's been able to become Lincoln faster than Lincoln, or so some pundits would have us believe. More

California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has agreed to investigate a complaint against the Mormon Church. A group called "Californians Against Hate" (CAH) filed the complaint about the church's support of Proposition 8 More

The "hockey stick" is a chart developed ten years ago that showed that global temperatures were pretty constant until about 100 years ago when they began to shoot up. It took a body check over the weekend. More

The broadcast television networks face a double whammy as advertising markets soften and audience erosion to cable and the internet continues. Showbiz bible Variety even headlines, "Needed: Network bailout?" More

I have always been fond of Lord Black and an admirer of his. Never more so than today upon reading his article written from prison as he awaits the result of his appeal of what I regard as a meritless conviction More

Today, the NYT has a big piece about how traditional cafes all over France are going by the wayside -- all, according to the NYT, because of "changing attitudes, habits and now a poor economic climate." More

That fact was kept under wraps..until after the election. Scowcroft, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski (who also advised Barack Obama on foreign policy issues) have a long problematic record toward Israel More

Losing Rep. Dingell as the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee does not bode well for American industries, but there is another ominous reason to fear Henry Waxman's ascent to the Chairmanship. More

In a shocking incident that somehow escaped much notice in the American media, rampaging German students vandalized an exhibit at Berlin's Humboldt University commemorating the persecution of Jewish business owners by the Nazis. More

The New York Times is suddenly getting weepy at the thought of where to house the terrorist thugs if Gitmo is closed, and it would appear that there's some movement afoot to get Congress to pass a preventive detention act. More

Senators Levin and Dodd inserted language into the Congressional Record to make it appear that the intent of the Bailout Bill was to aid automakers. This occurred after the Bailout Bill was passed. More

The mad scramble for government money continues - money that no one has earned, no one has to pay back, and with no end in sight of how much the government will be forced to take from the innocent to give to the guilty. More

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post made the The Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, the target of their dogged probe of the corruption of the Nixon White House. Now, decades later, CREEP is back. More

Just as the mainstream media are beginning to admit their bias during the election for Obama, the emboldened enviros are finally beginning to admit that the economics behind the green movement are bogus. More

A well-spoken black liberal from Hyde Park is elected to the highest office. Blacks are rejoicing that one of their own had risen so high. Been there, done that with the election of Harold Washington as Mayor of Chicago in 1983. More

A fairly obscure local race in Arizona may have national implications. One of our Arizona Corporation Commission Republican candidates has apparently won his tight race against a hugely funded Democrat candidate. More

We supported John McCain and hisrunning mate,Sarah Palin, and are sorely disappointed at the cattiness toward Sarah by McCain's staff that's making its way to the press.There's only one way to end this and protect the reputation of the person who brought so much to the... More

Unlike Democrats over the past 8 years, I will not relentlessly continue the campaign and I will not actively try to destroy our new president as you have done on a daily basis since the 2000 election. More

How interesting that the first name offered by our President elect who ran on the platform of hope and change is a veteran of the Clinton administration who has long been known to be Chicago mayor Richard Daley's eyes and ears in Washington, DC. More

In a truly magnificent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ,Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, who at one point interned with Senator Kerry, details the shameful treatment of President Bush and its consequences: More

Clarice Feldman is spending the night at NPR headquarters, one of several nprbloggers. Stay tuned for her coverage of the election returns.
Fox is reporting Dole has lost her Senate race in North Carolina. More

Two days ago Democrats had illegally distributed the Social Security numbers of conservative Republican Congressman Bill Sali, and his wife Terry, in campaign literature supporting Sali's Democrat opponent.
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Having been caught red-handed invading without warrant the privacy of Joe the Plumber, Ohio's Helen Jones-Kelly, an Obama contributor, lied about why she ordered the search and her staff is not backing her up. More